_Luther._--"Our SEA!... Saint Peter, _our_ predecessor, said, '_Silver and gold have I none_,' (Acts, iii, 6.) Jesus Christ said, '_The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; but it shall not be so with you._' (Luke, xxii, 25.) But if a waggon loaded with hay must, on meeting with a drunken man, give way to him, _à fortiori_ must St. Peter and Jesus Christ himself give way to the pope." _The Pope._--"Likewise we excommunicate and curse all who falsify our bulls, and our apostolic letters...." _Luther._--"But the letters of God, the Scriptures of God, all the world may condemn and burn." _The Pope._--"Likewise we excommunicate and curse all who detain provisions which are on the way to Rome...." _Luther._--"He barks and bites like a dog threatened to be deprived of his bone."[450] [450] Gleich wie ein Hund ums Beines willen. (L. Op. (L.) xviii, p. 12.) _The Pope._--"Likewise we condemn and curse all who keep back judicial rights, fruits, tithes, revenues, appertaining to the clergy." _Luther._--"For Jesus Christ has said, '_Whosoever will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also._' (Matt. v, 40.) and this is our commentary upon the passage." _The Pope._--"Whatever be their station, dignity, order, power, or rank; be they even bishops or kings...." _Luther._--"For '_There will arise false teachers among you who will despise dominion and speak evil of dignities_,' saith the Scripture. (Jude, 8.)" _The Pope._--"Likewise we condemn and curse all those who in any kind of way attack the city Rome, the kingdom of Sicily, the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, the patrimony of St. Peter in Tuscany, the duchy of Spoleto, the margravate of Ancona, the Campagna, the cities of Ferrara and Benevento, or any other city or country appertaining to the Church of Rome." _Luther._--"O, Peter, poor fisherman! where did you get Rome and all those kingdoms? I salute you, Peter, king of Sicily! ... and fisherman at Bethsaida!" _The Pope._--"We excommunicate and curse all chancellors, counsellors, parliaments, procurators, governors, officials, bishops, and others who oppose our letters of exhortation, invitation, prohibition, mediation, execution, etc." [Sidenote: HOLY THURSDAY AT ROME.] _Luther._--"For the holy see seeks only to live in idleness, magnificence, and debauchery, to command, storm, deceive, lie, insult, and commit all sorts of wickedness in peace and safety...." "O Lord, arise! it is not as the papists pretend. Thou hast not forsaken us, nor is thy favour turned away from us." So spake Leo X at Rome, and Luther at Wittemberg. The pontiff having finished his anathemas, the parchment on which they were written was torn in pieces, and the fragments thrown to the people. Immediately there was a great rush among the crowd, all pressing forward, and striving to get hold of a morsel of the terrible bull.